Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
August 1996 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1996In what year was Laudato Si' published?
- 2nd August 1996Which UK Act of Parliament licenses and regulates scientific procedures on protected animals?
- 3rd August 1996In which cave is Muhammad believed to have first encountered the angel Jibril?
- 4th August 1996Who wrote The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), the key study of mystical experience?
- 5th August 1996Give one virtue that the soul-making theodicy says can be developed through facing suffering.
- 6th August 1996Give one just war criterion that judges how proportionate the harm of a war is to the good it might achieve.
- 7th August 1996Give one Bible reference that Christians associate with peacemaking.
- 8th August 1996Which of the five statutory purposes of sentencing focuses on making amends to those affected by a crime?
- 9th August 1996Give the definition of corporal punishment.
- 10th August 1996Explain what religious discrimination means, giving a brief example.
- 11th August 1996State one Bible reference commonly used to support the equality of all races.
- 12th August 1996Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 13th August 1996According to John 16:7, why does Jesus say it is 'for your good' that he is going away?
- 14th August 1996A church's weekly Sunday attendance falls from 120 to 90 over five years, while its midweek 'Messy Church' grows to attract 40 new families. Calculate the percentage fall in Sunday attendance.
- 15th August 1996Name the day that marks the start of Lent, on which some Christians receive an ash mark on their forehead.
- 16th August 1996According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 17th August 1996According to Qur'an 2:37, how does Adam respond after his mistake, and how does Allah respond in turn?
- 18th August 1996Which two things are humans and jinn believed to have that angels do not?
- 19th August 1996Name the first four caliphs recognised by Sunni Muslims, in order.
- 20th August 1996Which two prayers do many Shia Muslims combine, alongside Maghrib and Isha?
- 21st August 1996Why does traditional Islamic teaching insist that armed jihad can only be declared by a legitimate authority, not by individuals?
- 22nd August 1996Name the legal process a married couple must complete in England if they wish to end their marriage.
- 23rd August 1996State one non-religious argument for treating men and women equally at work, based on the idea of shared human rights.
- 24th August 1996Give the Latin term for the Protestant doctrine that salvation is by faith alone.
- 25th August 1996Give one non-religious (for example, Humanist) reason for believing death is the end of a person's existence.
- 26th August 1996In which surah of the Qur'an does the verse most often quoted in these debates about the value of a single life appear?
- 27th August 1996In which year, and against whom, did Russell debate the cosmological argument on BBC radio?
- 28th August 1996Give one factor, other than education, that might cause someone's belief to change after a religious upbringing.
- 29th August 1996Give one practical need a refugee is likely to have immediately after arriving in a host country.
- 30th August 1996Give the primary, most commonly taught meaning of the word jihad for most Muslims, most of the time.
- 31st August 1996Suggest one reason a sociologist would treat addiction as a 'risk factor' for crime rather than a 'cause' of crime.